Stories and experiences

Due to what is currently going on the world with Corvid19 I have been severely worried about catching the virus and going through the symptoms whilst being a smoker. I had cut down all of a sudden to at least 1 smoke a day from the 23rd of March due to my fears of not being able to recover if I did catch the virus and I just didn’t feel like it was doing it for me anymore, if that makes sense. ...

Water and meditation. Thanks for replies - Today has been a bit of a blah day. Headaches, feel like it’s early morning when it’s 5.30pm! Weird. Think I will take patch off tonight and get a good nights sleep, put it on early in the morning. Felt like I had gremlins in my head, I’m squashing them more each day. Anyone else had similar experiences? I am embracing these feelings as my jou...

So I quit smoking cold turkey just over two weeks ago. I never smoked in my life (I’m 41) until 18 months ago approx. Long story but my partner smoked, and it started casually as he smoked in the house at weekends. We aren’t together any more, that’s another horror story but the stress of him dumping me several times before I finally told him I wasn’t going back had me reaching for cigarettes ...

Associate yourself to new place where your old habit reminds you, keep walking in new places/garden/mountains and breathe (deep breathe) after 1 month and observe what you missed when your able to breathe easily and deeply... :-)

The cigarette packaging images were a huge a wake up call to me, I'm terrified of getting the diseases as they are so graphic. I quit for me and I quit for my family... u can too

Hey everyone, I'm new to this community and just wanna sgare my story. I've tried quitting several times in the past and tge longest I've went was 2 months. Every time I started again was because of booze tge craving was just to big and eventually I will give in. I've been smoking/vaping for about 5 years. I'm on day 4 now and quitting with the nicotine patch. This time I've also decided to quit...

300 days today! Feeling very proud of myself right now. I was going to say I was lucky I quit when I did, but it wasnt luck. It took a lot of willpower and strength. Its better to say I was fortunate with the timing due to Covid 19 and all. Not just dropping out of a high risk category, but money wise with what is happening with economies at the moment. Things are going well. I may occasionally...

Drink lots of water. Be kind to yourself

Hello All, So I stopped smoking for 18 days now. And my body is going through weird feelings. Sometimes short of breath and my body hurts sometimes and my sleep is messed up. I sleep a lot but all short naps even at night. Is this normal? I also want to add the way I quit was cold turkey:( I just decided to stop over 2 weeks ago and threw my pack of cigs away and promised I’ll never go back to...

Hi all, I've started giving up smoking and failed for about 20yrs. With the coronaviris going around and currently fighting broncual asthma I made the decision two days ago to give it a shot to quit today. I do however get anxiety without cigarettes and it jumps on my nerves that's why I take up smoking over and over again. I have Nicorette patches and loginzens. Any tips'n tricks to help will ...